35 SUMMER SALE OF AFRICAN AND OCEANIC ART Paris—On June 18, collectors of African and Oceanic art will have a double opportunity to acquire tribal art at Sotheby’s in Paris. At 4 p.m., the Françoise and Jean Corlay Collection will attract aficionados of Zairean art. This single-collection sale will include a group of important Songye figures, both large and small, which beautifully embody notions of power and sensitivity and are all but emblematic of the artistic creations of the peoples of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Yaka art will also be offered, including an exceptionally refined headrest, formerly in the Bela Hein Collection. At 4:30 p.m. on the same day, a second session will feature works in search of new owners from a variety of collections. Highlights of the sale will include a Dogon figure from Mali attributed to the Master of Ogol as well as a Senufo couple from Côte d’Ivoire with a Charles Ratton provenance. The auction previews will be on June 14, 15, and 17, at Sotheby’s Paris location at 76 rue du Faubourg Saint- Honoré. TOP LEFT: Royal cup, agere ifa. Yoruba, Nigeria. Est: 1,200,000–1,500,000 euros. ABOVE: Janiform figure. Songye, DR Congo. LEFT: Female figure. Dogon, Mali. Est: 90,000–130,000 euros. BELOW: Couple. Senufo, Côte d’Ivoire. Est: 200,000–300,000 euros. Above to be offered at Sotheby’s, Paris, on June 18, 2013. Sales and Shows 25 May 2013 Tribal Art Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg www.tribal-art-auktion.de 3 June 2013 Tribal Art Castor – Hara, Paris www.origineexpert.com 3 June 2013 American Indian Art Bonhams, San Francisco www.bonhams.com 5–9 June 2013 BRUNEAF Sablon District, Brussels www.bruneaf.com 8 June 2013 African and Oceanic Art Native, Brussels www.native-auctions.com 12–14 June 2013 Tribal Art Galerie Fischer Auktionen, Luzern, Switzerland www.fischerauktionen.ch 15 June 2013 African and Oceanic Art Étude de Provence, Marseille www.etudedeprovence.com 18 June 2013 African and Oceanic Art Sotheby’s, Paris www.sothebys.com 19 June 2013 African and Oceanic Art Christie’s, Paris www.christies.com 19 June 2013 American Indian and Tribal Art Skinner, Boston www.skinnerinc.com 26 June 2013 African, Oceanic, Asian, and Pre- Columbian Art. Koller Auctions, Geneva www.kollerauktionen.ch 8–10 August 2013 30th Annual Antique Ethnographic Art Show 11–13 August 2013 35th Annual Invitational Antique Indian Art Show Convention Center, Santa Fe www.whitehawkshow.com 10–13 August 2013 The Santa Fe Show El Museo Cultural, Santa Fe www.thesantafeshow.com 7 September 2013 Tribal Art Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg www.tribal-art-auktion.de 10–15 September 2013 Parcours des Mondes Saint Germain-des-Prés, Paris www.parcours-des-mondes.com Rousseau Collection, it will showcase a group of about one hundred works by this Congolese people, who are masters in the art of sculpting in ivory. The objects were gathered over the course of more than thirty years by Belgian collector Benoît Rousseau, who bought them both in situ and on the international art market. A catalog will be published as a lasting souvenir of this exhibition, which will, without a doubt, delight tribal art lovers. Finally—and this is certainly not entirely coincidental— it should be noted that the preview of BRUNEAF coincides with the preview of Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?, an important exhibition that will be open until October 27. It is being organized by the King Baudouin Foundation, the BELvue Museum (where the show will be held), and the Royal Museum of Central Africa in Tervuren to commemorate the bicentenary of the birth of David Livingston (1813–1873), the Scottish doctor and missionary whose name will forever be linked to the exploration of Africa in the second half of the nineteenth century, and particularly an 1871 meeting with Henry Stanley. Look for an article about this interesting exhibition in an upcoming issue of this magazine.
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